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19 FALL 2018 42% HISPANIC 34% AFRICAN AMERICAN 13% WHITE 7% ASIAN 4% OTHER BY RACE NEW JERSEY EOF GRANT $1,500 per student per year TCNJ PROMISE AWARD FULL COST COVERED Fills gap for each first- and second-year student to attend at no cost TCNJ INCENTIVE AWARD Up to $5,000 Each for the third and fourth years Kamil Amer '11 was 12, the oldest of four brothers, when his family left Jordan and settled in the large Palestinian community in Paterson, New Jersey. He knew no English. "I've always wanted to be a doctor," he says. "Ever since I was a young kid, everybody would just call me Dr. Kamil." His patients call him Dr. Kamil now too, where he is a resident in orthopedic surgery at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. His three brothers all followed him into the EOF program at TCNJ: Kamal '12, an internal medicine resident at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia; Wael '16, a law student at Seton Hall; and Rami '17, a student in the graduate program at Drexel University School of Medicine, hoping to enter medical school next year. "When our friends were going to movies or buying new things, we were working or studying," says Kamil, who worked as a tutor as many as 30 hours a week through college and medical school, as well as starting a student- run free health care clinic. "My mother didn't care about any materialistic things. 'He got on honor roll; he got a scholarship' — that was her way to show off." He chose orthopedics because the relationship between effort and result is so clear. "A person comes in with a broken bone, it's like instant gratification putting it back together," he says. "And they come back a few months later, and it's like they never broke anything." THE AMERS BAND OF HIGH-ACHIEVING BROTHERS From left: Kamal, Rami, Kamil and Wael Amer

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